screencapture

macos

Utility to take screenshots and screen recordings.

Examples (6)

Take a screenshot and save it to a file

screencapture path/to/file.png

Take a screenshot including the mouse cursor

screencapture -C path/to/file.png

Take a screenshot and open it in Preview, instead of saving

screencapture -P

Take a screenshot of a selected rectangular area

screencapture -i path/to/file.png

Take a screenshot after a delay

screencapture -T seconds path/to/file.png

Make a screen recording and save it to a file

screencapture -v path/to/file.mp4